Patent GB-189915575-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machinery for Loading Type, Type Matrices, or similar Matter into the Channels of Type or Matrix Distributing Machines.
Inventor: LINKE EMIL FRANK
Filed: 1899-07-29
Granted: 1900-07-28
Abstract: 15,575. Linke, E. F. Dec. 31, A.D. 1898, [date applied for under Sec. 103 of Patents &c. Act, A.D. 1883]. Type, distributing; linotype and like machines.-Relates to apparatus for supplying types to the channels of a type or matrix distributing machine. Fig. 7 shows a sectional plan, and Fig. 8 a sectional elevation of an apparatus f o r s u p p l y i n g types to the channels 31 of the distributing- cylinder 18 of a T h o r n e s e t t i n g and distributing machine. The frame 15 of the apparatus is pivoted at 17 to the part 20 of the frame of the machine, so that it may be swung away from the cylinder 18 when desired. It is held in operative position by a locking-bolt 19, 22. The column of types 30 is placed in an ordinary galley 33, along which the types are fed by a pusher 45 mounted on a slide 48 movable in guides under the galley 33. The driving. shaft 24 is driven from a shaft 25 driven by a shaft of the machine in substantially the same manner as in the corresponding apparatus described in Specification No. 24,624, A.D. 1898. On the types in the channels 31 are followers 85 which may be pressed by springs 84, and on each of the followers is a lug or part 86 projecting from the channel 31. When the types in a channel are exhausted, or nearly so, the projection 86 comes into position to engage and operate, as the cylinder 18 makes its intermittent rotary movement, a trigger 91 connected by a rod 93 to an arm or finger 90, which normally holds the pawl of a onerevolution clutch out of operation. When operated by the trigger 91 &c., the finger 90 releases the pawl and the shaft 24 is coupled to, and driven through one revolution by, the continuouslydriven shaft 25, and at the end of each revolution the pawl is disengaged and the shaft 24 stopped by the finger 90. The follower 85 is first raised by a lever 87, engaging under the projection 86, and operated by a cam 88, and the end line of the column of types 30 is then pushed into the channel 31. The line is pushed into the channel by a pusher 40 reciprocated by a link 43, lever 42, 41, and cam on the shaft 24. Before the line is pushed in, it is broken off or detached from the rest of the column by a breaker 58, the end 60 of which engages the feet of the types and pushes the line forward when the pusher 40 is retracted. The breaker 58 is carried by one or more links 59 so that its end 60 enters and moves out of the path along which the line of types is pushed into the channel 31. The breaker is operated by the slide 40, which, as it returns, engages the part 61 of the breaker. The slide 48 is operated by a feed-rack 50 engaging a pawl 51 pivoted on the slide, and pulled by a spring 53. The pressure of the spring 53 is removed from the types while the line is pushed into the channels, by a cam 54 engaging a projection 55 on the rack and moving it rearwardly. As the slide 40 is retracted, the forward movement of the column of types is cushioned by a guard 66 on a pivoted arm or lever 65, on the other end of which is pivoted a bye-pass piece 67 operated by a cam 70 on the pusher 40 in the return movement of the latter, to move the guard 66 up to the next line of types just before the feed-cam 54 allows the spring 53 to move the column forward. The movement of the column is cushioned by the receding movement of the guard due to the pull of the spring 71 and controlled by the cam 70 as it moves away from the piece 67. The trigger 91 is mounted on a vertically-movable slide so that it may be lowered to bring the nose 92 of the trigger out of operative position to stop the operation of the apparatus. The slide is operated by a wedge which may be moved by hand when desired, and is also moved by a projection on the slide 48 so as to stop the injecting operations when the column of types in the galley is exhausted. The upper ends of the channels in the cylinder 18 are covered by an annular cap piece or cover having one or more slots which may be brought into coincidence with any of the channels, by turning the annular cover, for removal of the follower 85 and spring 84 from the channel. When the types and galley are in position, their front faces are covered by a glazed door 34, 35 hinged at one end by means of an H-shaped link 36 pivoted to the framing at 37.